Air France robbery

The Air France robbery occurred in April 1967, when associates of the Lucchese crime family stole $420,000 ($3,000,000 in 2016) from the Air France cargo terminal at JFK International Airport in New York City, New York. Night-shift manager Robert McMahon tipped off the Mafia about the ability to rob the cargo, which included several bags of $60,000 each that had been exchanged in Southeast Asia by American servicemen. While the security guard was on his meal break, the mobsters walked into the terminal, pretending to retrieve lost baggage. The mobsters used a duplicate key to unlock the door, and they loaded seven bags of money into their empty suitcase. No alarms were raised, no shots were fired, and nobody was injured, and the theft was not discovered until the next day, when a Wells Fargo truck arrived to pick up the money. The mobsters gave $120,000 to the Colombo crime family, as the theft occurred in their territory, and they gave $60,000 to their boss Paul Cicero as tribute, leaving them with $240,000 ($1,750,440 in 2016).